Unjust property tax vote

How naive I have been. I always believed that construction bonds, for schools, that were Funded by property tax increases were voted on by those who paid property taxes. Not so. After the recent Moses Lake School District school construction bond barely passed, I called the Grant County Election Department. I wanted to know to whom the ballots for the school bond were sent.

I was told that all registered voters within the Moses Lake School District received ballots necessary to vote. The Election Department told me that they did not have the ability to sort out those that pay property taxes and those that do not pay property taxes.

Registered voters within the Moses Lake School District and do not pay a property tax have the right to vote on a bond that will increase the property tax on property owned by others. That is not fair. If a bond is passed by the majority of voters who pay the County a property tax then fine. But not by those who do not pay property taxes.

You want to build hospitals and schools then make it so that everyone pays a tax for them to be funded with. Not just the property owner.

I do not use the school system here nor have I used the school system here in Moses Lake. In the past I have supported it. But now I do not. Now I know that as a taxpayer I am being ripped off. That others control my money. We started a new country because of this sort of thing a few years back. You want my help just ask. Do not hide behind some old moral value that everyone has the right to decide how much others pay so that they do not have to but get to reap the benefit.

Robert Meade

Moses Lake